Bug 59858

Summary:	rebuilddb cores with a Segmentation fault
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Dos <chris>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
URL:	ftp://ftp.chrisdos.com/pub/rpmdb.tar.gz
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Description Chris Dos 2002-02-13 22:25:55 UTC

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Description of problem:
After using red-carpet to upgrade the system, the rpmdb is corrupted.
rpm --rebuildb causes a sgmentation fault.  Here is the exact error:

rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #130 retrieved, skipping.
*** dbiUpdateRecord: uh is NULL
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The tar'd and corrupted database can be found at:
ftp.chrisdos.com/pub/rpmdb.tar.gz

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm --rebuildb
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-02-24 17:08:35 UTC

Fixed in private e-mail.